Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk's Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desks for Mumbai-based brokerages and FXStreet. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

Omkar holds a Master's degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.

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Crypto firm with U.S. bank charter holds bitcoin holder Strategy's preferred stock

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered U.S. crypto bank, has added perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy to its balance sheet.

Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital at Consensus 2025.

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Bitcoin bounces above $65,000 as dollar weakens and bullish hopes build

A broad uptick across tokens arrived alongside a softer greenback and a rally in Asian equities, though analysts remain split on whether the Feb. 5 lows will hold.

Price bounce (Getty Images)

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Crypto markets bleed as bitcoin hovers above liquidation zone

Bitcoin dropped to $63,000 as the dollar climbed and equities weakened. A break below $60,000 risks further liquidations and a slide toward $52,500.

A man runs past a wall-painted exit pictogram toward a door.

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Hong Kong's RedotPay said to plan blockbuster $1 billion IPO in New York: Bloomberg

The stablecoin payments company has hired JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies, according to Bloomberg.

Crowded Hong Kong street scene with Chinese banners over the road

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Bitcoin's price discovery is moving to Chicago

CME’s shift to nonstop derivatives access may accelerate institutional migration away from traditional crypto exchanges, according to the Chief Commercial Officer of XBTO.

CME Group Headquarters. (CoinDesk Archives)

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Polymarket bettors put $3 million on which crypto firm ZachXBT will expose next

Solana app Meteora leads the odds at 43% after the blockchain investigator teased a "major" insider-trading probe set for release on Wednesday.

hackers (Modified by CoinDesk)

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Jane Street faces claims of insider trading that sped up Terraform's 2022 collapse

Jane Street has denied the allegations as a "desperate" and "baseless" attempt to extract money.

Do Kwon (CoinDesk archives)

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Bitcoin dips under $63,000 and history says more pain ahead before bottom forms

Bitcoin extends overnight weakness amid renewed concerns over President Trump's tariffs.

COIN stock slides. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay)